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     "If our assumptions are even partially correct, individuals will vary more vividly tomorrow than they do today. More of them are likely to grow up sooner, to show responsibility at an earlier age, to be more adaptable, and to evince greater individuality. They are more likely than their parents to question authority. They will want money and work for it - but, except under conditions of extreme privation, they will resist working for money alone.
     Above all, they seem likely to crave balance in their lives - balance between work and play, between production and prosumption, between headwork and handwork, between the abstract and the concrete, between objectivity and subjectivity. And they will see and project themselves in far more complex terms than any previous people.
     As Third Wave civlizations mature, we shall create not a utopian man or woman who towers over the people of the past, not a superhuman race of Goethes and Aristotles (or Genghis Khans or Hitlers) but merely, and proudly, one hopes, a race - and a civilzation - that deserves to be called human.

     No hope for such an outcome, no hope for a safe transition to a decent new civilization is possible, however, until we face one final imperative: the need for political transformation. And is it this prospect - both terrifying and exhilirating - that we explore in these final pages. The personality of the future must be matched by a politics of the future."